education

[ish mailian]

Nice.

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 5:28 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That a book about the failure of education would be hailed as a teaching
> tool might have amused Adams. But the* Education* is certainly an American
> jeremiad. It warns of unlimited, immeasurable power that will be unleashed
> in the twentieth century, far exceeding anyone’s ability to control it. For
> politics is only the “systematic organization of hatreds,” and “practical
> politics consists in ignoring facts.”
>
> https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/04/08/henry-adams-posthumous-life/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR%20Adams%20Oyler%20Honduras%20Buber&utm_content=NYR%20Adams%20Oyler%20Honduras%20Buber+CID_290d53549677c7ce4a67236560fc6824&utm_source=Newsletter
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